Also, turns out I already have them blocked on a “users who have used the R word” block list, so turns out their disgusting behavior manifests in multiple ways.

Oh that’s disgusting behavior. I’m sorry they did that to you.

Martinete are *so* beautiful. Pero muchas gracias!! You might be right about guineafowl! I just listened to some audio and it definitely sounds closer. I’ve only seen guineafowl once, closer to Arecibo, not here in Utuado. I’m going to keep my eye out! 🖤

TORO Destiny Toro creates illustration, animation, & pattern design in Borikén (Puerto Rico). You can shop items like prints and mugs, order a commission, or join the mail club. All of her floral and fauna...

To me, this is what art is about. 🙂

Beauty in the mist of struggle.

Hope in a confusing world.

www.destinytoro.com

Join: Borikén Mail Club — TORO

She writes, too! There's monthly blogs (that are filled with rich, thoughful discussions, as well as links to videos and articles that she finds interesting.

Members of her Borikén Mail Club Get more than just art, though. There's a ENTIRELY SEPARATE blog just for members!

borikenmailclub.com

Just ONE example of TORO's work: A beautiful painting of a palm tree, half in radiant light and half in shadow.

She is someone who has overcome a lot of adversity and persevered through much. To me, TORO's work shows not only the contrast between light and dark, beauty and pain, but also her strength.

Every month she makes new art. Every month she sends it to members of her Borikén Mail Club.

Have you been thinking about joining borikenmailclub.com? Maybe this thread is the little nudge you need 🧵🥰🖤

And give @gabrielwhitney.bsky.social a follow too!

Thank you for your incredibly kind words! 🥹🖤

Cheering you on as you get to the end of your Kickstarter campaign, so happy to see your project funded 👏

A photo of a drawing of a cartoon cat with a necklace and a hat with a bow.

My kitty noir book only has a few days left on Kickstarter.

We're only a couple of pledges away from adding a bonus short to the end, titled "Feline Fatale." (Starring a certain saucy feline.)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/din...

Milky Way 🌌 Stack of 10 images 📍Lares, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 #Astrophotography #photography #nature #darktable #sequator #photography&art

That's what I was looking for... Finally I'm happy now!

Milky Way 🌌 Stack of 10 images
📍Lares, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

#Astrophotography #photography #nature #darktable #sequator #photography&art

😍🖤

Sister Minerva joined the ancestors yesterday. May she rest in power.

Protests are organized to fight the development on protected coastal land

PUERTO RICO NO SE VENDE! Although the story of BEAST of BORIKÉN is fiction, the long history of resistance against the exploitation of our land and resources is not! written by @julioanta.bsky.social drawn by yours truly. Issue #1 comes out July from @readtinyonion.bsky.social and @darkhorse.com

Photo of a brunette child holding a small brown dog and speaking. Photo is painted in various areas with purple and blue, with a speech bubble drawn around handwritten text "BMC members: check your inbox" borikenmailclub.com

Borikén Mail Club members 📣 this month's BMC newsletter is in your inbox!

Learn more and join here: borikenmailclub.com

Mama (left) did her very first, absolutely perfect 🐬 dolphin pet 🐈‍⬛ last night after many months of practicing! Belly (right) is a great teacher- they both are, they teach other things all the time 🖤

borikenmailclub.com members are getting this full video in their inbox tomorrow! Along with some writings about my reconnecting with nature.

Join, get the BMC newsletter, get art in your mailbox, and support a disabled Puerto Rican artist 🖤🇵🇷

She’s always been so awesome!!

'Hearing our language is like medicine to us': new book features Tlingit Raven stories in original language - KCAW A nonprofit tribal organization has published a new book that presents Tlingit Raven stories for the first time in the original language with English translations.

There’s a new book of Tlingit stories published in Tlingit! Things like books & movies in Indigenous languages r so necessary to keep our languages alive. The book uses transcribed recordings & performances from Tlingit storytellers born btwn 1870 & 1915. www.kcaw.org/2026/04/08/h...

Graphic of the front and back of an illustrated postcard- a coquí on a monstera leaf and various Taino design motifs- on a photo of greenery, labeled april, borikenmailclub.com

Join the Borikén Mail Club this month to get April's coquí postcard mailed to you from Puerto Rico in our next Mail Drop 🖤

Learn more & join here: borikenmailclub.com

#art #illustration #indigenousArt #bsnm

Acrylic painting of a black silhouette of a bear with one large human eye in a meadow of wildflowers. The sun is encircled by a rainbow.

Acrylic painting of a tiger's head sitting atop a rose stem in the desert at night. A comet is falling from the sky in the background

Acrylic painting of a rearing green pegasus, covered in feathers, in a desert. There is a large "ring of fire" solar eclipse in the background.

Acrylic painting of a bobcat in the desert at night. A Joshua tree is behind the cat and the ends of the branches have gargoyle heads engulfed in flames.

Good news! If you missed my solo show at LeMieux Galleries in NOLA, they have a wall of my paintings up through their May 2nd opening and Jazz Fest. These are just a few and you can view online: www.lemieuxgalleries.com/artist/amy-g...

#art #painting #surrealism #nature #contemporaryart #NOLA

Same, it’s SO infuriating

April Newsletter Creating from suffering or joy? · BMC Mail Drop

"...that conversation has hung in my mind like one of those crystals you hang in your window to refract light. Occasionally, I see the refraction, consider my ever growing life experiences, and reflect...

Can you only create [or learn or grow] from suffering, or can it- should it- come from joy?"

Graphic of 2 colorful postcards- a coquí and a landscape- on a photo of greenery, labeled april and may. A third is gray and blurry, labeled June, oracle card mini-print. borikenmailclub.com.

New Mail Club drop for this season! Sign up this month to get all 3 mailed to you from Puerto Rico 🖤 (The oracle card mini-print will be revealed on June 1st!) Join from anywhere that receives USPS letter mail 💌

Learn more & join here: borikenmailclub.com

#art #illustration #indigenousArt #bsnm

#BirdID Are these green herons or could they be something else? From far away the size matches, color possibly. Searching audio sources, green heron always comes closest but I haven’t ever found anything that matches.

Hadn’t felt one in a while, glad to know my inner checklist is still automated 😅

Fuck.

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Matt is one of the very best of us. We've already lost Tinu & Alice Wong. Please do everything you can 🙏🏻

I used to work in the French Market for an artist who made vintage style hair fascinators and headbands. And she always made hat pins, not bc they sold well (they didn’t) but bc she knew the context and firmly believed *we must bring back hat pins* 💪

Photo of a silhouette holding a phone and to-go coffee cup against a brightly lit old yellow and white painted cement brick wall in a parking garage with the number 71 and a large amount of fire extinguishers on the ground

➕➕ #SelfPortraitSunday ➕➕

📍 Shreveport, La, 2013